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By Jason Livingston-the operator of www.GreenLivingRocks.com where you can learn how to build solar panel, construct a homemade windmill, and begin living green.

It seems like the recognition of using solar power is rising every day.  And people are becoming more interested in how they can add solar energy to their lifestyle in inexpensive ways.  That is why solar panel kits are now available for a wide variety of solar applications.  Here are a few of the solar panel kits that you can obtain.

One of the most reasonably priced kinds of solar panel kits to buy is a 45 watt model, for around $200.  It is sizeable enough to run common home electronic equipment, like T.V.s and computers, and even to power lighting.  It will even charge a 12v battery so you can store its electricity for use at night.  The equipment is now advanced enough that the PV cells can generate electricity even on gloomy days.  And its little size (about 36inches square) makes it straightforward to find a suitable location.  Kits typically include the panel or panels, mounting hardware and wiring.  A few kits may include an inverter; otherwise you will have to buy that separately.

Other kits develop on that fundamental concept of assembling the panels, mounting hardware and wiring for more specific applications. For instance, solar kits for power boats may include solar panels, and array and mounting hardware that is made from stainless steel or other materials that survive exposure to salt water.  They may also include tracking apparatus that will position the panels according to the sun’s location.

Kits intended for cabins may consist of the basic solar panels and wiring.  But they may use a shaft mounted array and hardware so that the panels can be positioned in a clearing away from foliage.  And the kits might additionally include a battery back up system for cabins that will be off the grid.

Solar panel kits designed for R.V.s start with a simple set up that provides basic power for lights and trickle charging the battery.  Yet luxury RVs that contain a lot of electrical equipment, ranging from built-in global positiong to home theater systems, might need a system as complicated and complex as an off grid home.  And there are kits available for these extremes as well as many RV requirements in between

There seems to be a kit available for very nearly any solar panel you can think of for home-based, commercial or recreational use.  The best way to acquire them is to hunt online.  And the best way to pick one is to compare their features and customer service.

The natural burial eco-trend reaches Montana
by Skylar Browning and R.C. Hooker

R.C. Hooker’s letter arrived at the Independent among the usual stack of press releases, letters to the editor and junk mail. In it, the Somers resident suggested a story idea that he thought might interest readers: a look at the current eco-trend toward green burials. In other words, burials that avoid the traditional metal casket, tombstone, vault and chemical-laden embalming process, and instead allow people to transition naturally back to the earth.

“Nearly everyone has a set of principles by which they live, but how many would be willing to die with them?” his letter started. “Natural interment, it would appear, represents the epitome of personal conviction: You live green; you die green. But is such an alternative possible in Montana?”

Hooker’s letter went on to answer its own question. In June, a family living in the Swan Valley had opened the state’s first all-natural cemetery. The bucolic “corpse garden” encompasses 120 acres of prime wildlife habitat just west of the Bob Marshall Wilderness and is surrounded by U.S. Forest Service land. After researching the various legal ramifications, the family decided the best way to preserve its land for future generations was to create a natural cemetery.

Hooker thought people should know about it. He thought the Independent was the best outlet to tell them. Then he offered a slight twist.

“Three weeks ago I discovered that I have pancreatic cancer and have less than six months to live. In fact, I recently visited the land to pick out my own personal site. I will be the cemetery’s first customer,” he wrote. “My biodegradable pine box is already on order.”

About 90 minutes north of Missoula, just past Lion Creek Road on Route 83, there’s a turnoff for Natural Cemeteries. A long dirt road travels east into the woods, crosses a small wooden bridge and ends at the log home belonging to Henry and Joan Meyer.

In 1951, the Meyers decided to leave their native New Jersey, elope, and seek out “the wildest and woolliest place there was.” Their first inclination was to head to Alaska, but the Korean War was in full swing and the draft board nixed the idea; Alaska wasn’t yet a state. The young couple chose the Swan Valley instead, and purchased 200 acres from the local sawmill owner for $25 an acre.

“When we first bought it, the guys at the sawmill all told us we was robbed,” says Henry, now 79. “Can you believe that? I didn’t know. I thought they might be right.”

Henry recalls the family history with verve, as if he’s told these stories before and never gets tired of hitting the inflections—”we was robbed”—just right. His short gray hair and beard belie his infectious enthusiasm and smile. He’s clearly proud to talk about his life and how he and Joan literally built it off the land.

“When I first came here, I couldn’t tell one tree from another,” he says. “I didn’t even know anything about building, and I had to build a house, you know. It was all timber and lodge pole, and I just selected the best trees I could. I drug ‘em in with a block and tackle. I packed the sand and the gravel for the concrete piers out of the creek and mixed it in the washtub. Slowly but surely, we figured it out and built it up.”

The Meyers’ home hasn’t changed much since the ’50s. They added electricity when it reached the Swan, and indoor plumbing only after their four children moved out. They logged the land selectively, using real horsepower, and replanted the forest for sustainability. They continue to drink directly from Lion Creek, which runs past the back of the cabin, and they hunt in their own front yard. With the exception of a brief stint in the Army—Henry, sure enough, was drafted right after reaching Montana—and the couple’s annual winter camping trips to an unnamed beach in Baja, they’ve lived off the property and learned to be good stewards of the land.

“We never got rich and we were never going to be rich,” Henry says. “The land was our wealth.”

In fact, land in the Swan Valley became incredibly valuable. Among the changes the Meyers have witnessed over the years, none compares to the region’s sprawling development.

“It started when they put in the road,” says Joan, also 79, referring to Route 83. “That changed everything, and in a good way. We like it. But it also opened up the area to more people.”

“More recently, a whole heck of a lot of those people have been moving in from all over” adds Henry, “and I guess some of them have some money, so that makes a big difference.”
Illustration by John Overmyer

* Illustration by John Overmyer

The constant threat of more development in the Swan is part of the reason Henry and Joan, with the help of their son, Peter, decided to create Natural Cemeteries. The family explored conservation easements and other traditional avenues of preserving the land, but was skeptical of loopholes and wanted more personal control. By creating a nonprofit natural cemetery, they could make the property untouchable forever—and ensure that Henry and Joan were buried on the land in which they’ve lived for nearly 60 years.

“I belong here,” says Henry. “I don’t want to be buried in town. I want to be buried right here on my own land. I looked into that and found that most anybody can be buried on their own land without much restrictions, but there’s no assurance that you’ll stay there. There’s no guarantee that someone won’t come along and build a septic tank right there on top of you. They can dig you up at any time. I thought about that and, with all the development happening now, I thought, ‘Gee, well that don’t sound real good.’

“So I looked into it a little deeper,” he continues, “and found that if you want to be protected, you have to establish your own official cemetery. We decided to give it a try.”

Once R.C. Hooker received his terminal diagnosis, the self-described “consummate nihilist” started to research his own burial options. He didn’t find many.

Since the late 19th century, most people have chosen to be buried in a traditional ceremony that requires many costly, resource-intensive components. Coffins are usually made of steel or exotic wood. Most cemeteries require coffins be placed in a concrete vault, which ensures that the carefully manicured grounds don’t collapse. Elaborate headstones, statues and mausoleums help decorate those manicured grounds. And before a body even reaches the ground, embalming fluid, which is mostly carcinogenic formaldehyde, helps preserve the body.

The Green Burial Council, an independent nonprofit organization based in New Mexico, estimates traditional burials in the United States contribute to a staggering amount of waste. Specifically, 30 million board feet of casket wood, 1.6 million tons of concrete in burial vaults, more than 800,000 gallons of embalming fluid—or enough to fill an Olympic-sized pool—and 90,000 tons of steel from caskets end up in the ground every year.

The waste doesn’t even begin to address the immense cost of burying it all. According to the National Funeral Directors Association, the average funeral runs $7,323. That price includes a basic service fee ($1,595), removal/transfer of the body ($233), embalming and other body preparations ($753), a viewing and ceremony ($869), use of a hearse ($251), a metal casket ($2,255) and a vault ($1,128), as well as other small charges. That cost, of course, can rise exponentially for more elegant accommodations like a hardwood coffin, especially if it’s made of an exotic wood from a tropical location.

“Sorry, but hardwood or soft, exotic or common, it is an absolute travesty to see it all end up buried in the ground,” says Hooker, 64. “It is a senseless waste.”

Hooker then looked into cremation, but that popular alternative to traditional burial still creates a sizable carbon footprint. According to Slate.com, a typical incinerator requires about 2,000 cubic feet of natural gas and 4 kilowatt-hours electricity per body. That means the average cremation produces roughly 250 pounds of CO2 equivalent, or about as much as a typical American home generates in six days. Hooker wasn’t sold and kept looking.

He wanted something that made sense and fit his lifestyle. Before moving west, Hooker worked as the editor of an outdoor magazine in Pennsylvania and often gave lectures about the importance of conservation. In Montana, he continued to write as a freelancer mostly about the outdoors and the environment. He figured there had to be a more natural burial option. Wasn’t death, after all, a natural thing?

His search led to a lot of information on the history of burials. There was the introduction of the term “ritual burial,” during the Upper Paleolithic times, when artifacts were first placed with the deceased for use in the afterlife. There was the Dark Age, when the ecclesiastical elite, motivated by fear of eternal damnation, wanted to plant themselves in a consecrated cemetery. Then there were those who wanted to separate themselves from the riffraff within those consecrated cemeteries, and built lavish vaults and sepulchers.
Illustration by John Overmyer

* Illustration by John Overmyer

Other cultures followed different rituals. The Parsi, who live primarily in Mumbai, India, believed that the proper way to deal with the dead was to expose them on specially built towers called dokhmas, or “Towers of Silence.” Vultures were then free to eat away. Interestingly, problems started when the vultures themselves began dying. Forensics showed the dead birds contained lethal levels of Diclofenac, an arthritis drug used by humans that remained in the system and caused kidney failure in the birds.

“What happened to the Parsi is happening to the modern cemetery of today,” Hooker says, referring to the waste being buried and its impact on the environment.

Hooker eventually found Natural Cemeteries through “the green grapevine,” an informal assembly of Montana friends whose part-time avocation is de-carbonizing the size of their footprint. The idea of naturally returning to the earth—no chemicals, no fancy casket, no excess waste—immediately appealed to him.

“The woods have always been my own personal salutarium, especially when I was young,” he says. “I was happiest alone, too, because the woods represented not an escape from, but rather an escape to a better world.”

Hooker’s not alone in shunning a traditional burial. Funeral homes across the country are beginning to embrace eco-friendly alternatives. The Green Burial Council, which helps certify businesses that meet certain green standards, approved of just 12 businesses a year ago. Now, more than 300 green burial providers are listed through the council.

“Death is the last taboo, really,” says Joe Sehee, founder and executive director of the Green Burial Council. “But green burial is something people can actually wrap their head around. It’s a concept—returning to the earth, naturally—that they understand and are willing to talk about. It’s moving into the mainstream quicker than anyone thought.”

Bozeman’s Dahl Funeral Home applied for certification with the Green Burial Council less than a year ago and is the only approved Montana provider. (Natural Cemeteries has consulted with the council, according to Sehee, but has not applied for certification.) Irene Dahl, a third generation funeral director, explored green burials because she wanted to offer families a new alternative.

“It’s sort of an educational tool at this point,” she says. “A lot of people are curious. Some people will come in and say that they want cremation because it’s the most natural way to go, and I can point out that, actually, there’s another option.”

Dahl can offer green burials because her funeral home uses Sunset Hill Cemetery, which is owned by the city of Bozeman and is one of the few public cemeteries that don’t require the use of a vault. A local store provides biodegradable caskets. Embalming, Dahl adds, is also not required by law; bodies are simply refrigerated before burial. She estimates that a bare-bones natural burial could cost, roughly, between $2,500 and $5,000, depending on the type of service and casket.

“It’s progress, not perfection,” says Dahl of the green burial she offers. “If it were perfection, you wouldn’t have to drive a hearse to the cemetery, there would be a pesticide-free section of the grounds and the gravestones would be natural rocks. It’s a positive step, but we’re hoping to offer even more in the future. All of this is still in the beginning stages.”
Illustration by John Overmyer

* Illustration by John Overmyer

The Meyers understand growing pains. As Peter and Henry walk the grounds of Natural Cemeteries, they tell more stories of the land and their attempt to bury people in it. On a ridge that overlooks the Meyers’ log cabin and two neighboring barns, as well as the surrounding valley, Henry points to his gravesite, marked by a simple metal corner stake.

“I can see the mess I made just perfectly from here,” he jokes. “This was always my spot.”

Joan’s site is directly next to Henry’s. Federal law requires that both she and Henry pay for their own sites, just as anyone else would. Stakes for two other customers—the Meyers say 10 people, so far, have signed up to be buried at Natural Cemeteries—have been set up farther down the ridge. R.C. Hooker is still expected to be the first person actually placed into the ground.

“It’s nice to finally see it taking shape,” says Henry. “It was a hell of a mess setting the thing up, but we made it.”

The mess came from the fact that no other natural cemetery exists in the state. Unlike Dahl Funeral Home, which simply added natural burials to its established offerings, the Meyers needed to start from scratch—and had no model to follow. Peter jokes that he couldn’t even find a copy of Building Cemeteries for Dummies at the bookstore.

“We pretty much wrote the rules for natural cemeteries in Montana,” says Peter, 49, who handles most of the nonprofit’s logistics. “We didn’t really have a choice.”

Peter says the family worked through county, state and federal agencies for nearly four years to gain the necessary approvals. They achieved official nonprofit status from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in 2006. Peter says he checked with the state’s Board of Funeral Service on state regulations. (The cemetery isn’t licensed with the state, but according to annotated code 37-19-803, private nonprofit cemeteries are exempt.) Peter also presented the cemetery’s mission and goals to the Board of Lake County Commissioners, which is responsible for maintaining records of burials on the site.

“Everything was fine,” says Commissioner Paddy Trussler. “Other than the records, there’s not much we’re involved in.”

The only hang-up, according to Peter, was that nobody knew how to define a natural cemetery. In one comical go-around, the IRS needed to know what criteria Natural Cemeteries had to be compliant about so that it could ensure compliance—and it was up to Natural Cemeteries to provide the criteria.

“Everyone who asked,” says Peter, “we just repeated our mission statement: ‘Live and die in harmony with nature. A green burial takes place in a forest environment using earth’s natural process to recycle human remains in a way that harmonizes with nature. A multiple use concept will be used to provide a restful place to meditate and observe nature. A green burial encourages biodegradable materials and encourages the planting of trees and shrubs’…We got a lot of ‘yeses’ and a lot of ‘nos’ and we just kept at it until we figured it out.”

Since the cemetery is a nonprofit organization, customers are considered “members” and payments for “sites”—not plots—are considered “donations.” The sites, which can be reserved for $500, are confirmed with specific GPS coordinates. Burial costs—known as “opening and closing”—add an additional $1,000. By law, 15 percent of every donation goes into a perpetual trust fund, which ensures the future maintenance of the cemetery. The cemetery’s bylaws map out the long-term stewardship of the site. A board of directors, which is comprised of Henry, Joan, Peter and Peter’s son, Mike Matola, runs the operation.

“We’ll keep it in the family for as many generations as possible,” says Peter. “If, for some reason, that’s no longer possible, it’ll go to the community, or the state of Montana, or the federal government. But no matter what, it’ll always remain as a natural cemetery.”

Natural Cemeteries encourages its members to enhance the surroundings by planting a tree or natural shrub near the grave. Natural rocks can also mark a site. The idea is not only to maintain the land’s current character, but to make it even more wild.

“We don’t just want it to look like it does today forever,” says Peter. “We want it to look like it did 100 years ago, before anyone even knew it was here.”
Illustration by John Overmyer

* Illustration by John Overmyer

The Meyers don’t refer to themselves as religious. Peter prefers to say they’re “spiritual.” But Henry admits that he’s been reading about religion more recently, mostly because he expects to be asked about it. Standing at his future gravesite, he articulates how the cemetery lines up with his personal beliefs.

“I read that one of God’s purposes for the earth was to create a paradise for man to live in,” he says. “We want to have this place be part of that. We don’t want to do something that’s contrary to that concept. When you live in the Swan, you already live closer to nature than the people who live in the city. You get a feeling of what nature wants and what nature has, and how to live within that. All we want is for nature to do her own thing.”

When R.C. Hooker first wrote to the Independent, he weighed 170 pounds. Now, he’s under 130 and refers to himself as “the anatomy lesson.” His once-healthy complexion has turned a mossy green and he tires quickly. Talking on the phone is difficult. Nevertheless, he still expresses excitement about his decision to go with a green burial.

Earlier this summer, he received his custom-made casket. A friend, Steve Wingard, who is known for his traditional Ojibwa and Cree berry baskets, agreed to make the box. It was constructed with white birch and Wingard didn’t use any stain, oil or polyurethane coating, which gives it a high coefficient of degradability. Wingard also used a simple white glue and, where reinforcement was needed, he chose uncoated steel nails that will rust quickly. He wove the handles with hemp rope, leaving the bore holes open to enhance and accelerate the breakdown of cell tissue post-mortem. All together, Wingard spent $110 on materials and approximately 11 hours of labor to make it. He only charged Hooker for the materials.

Hooker also paid Natural Cemeteries for his site, in cash. The spot overlooks an open meadow on the south side of the cemetery and is situated next to an enormous natural rock. Including his membership, opening and closing costs, natural rock headstone and the casket, Hooker paid a total of $1,960 for his burial—a steal compared to a traditional burial, but not an insignificant sum for a “rural rube.”

“This money represented my entire financial estate, my life savings,” he says. “That it should speak volumes about my life is apparent—if I die with a dollar in my pocket, it’s a dollar I wasted. Money was never a means nor an end. I had the freedom that only poverty could afford and my most important possession no matter where I lived was my library card. So from a purely nickel-and-dime point of view, my burial made sense.”

His reasoning, of course, goes beyond just money. Hooker talks openly about dying a heroic death—defending a fair maiden, fighting for justice or “maybe just the everyday slaying of windmills.” This isn’t that; not exactly.

“My degree in philosophy, of course, has helped immeasurably, having been a personal asset, yet a social liability,” he says. “In this, the end, it provides the necessary solace to finish the journey with more than a sense of dignity, but also with a sense of triumph.”

That triumph comes in the form of reincarnation. He’ll return to the earth, give something back, not just die.

“The point is that I am, at this very late stage of the game, willing to grow on spiritual lines, ready to reconsider all avenues, even reincarnation,” he says. “Too late? Maybe. But as an active participant in the natural burial movement, I have made a lasting commitment to principle. If I am lucky, my carbon footprint may even disappear all together.”

R.C. Hooker and Skylar Browning collaborated on the final draft of this article. Hooker can be reached directly at rc_hooker@yahoo.com. He invites those curious about natural burial to attend his service at Natural Cemeteries. Browning can be reached at sbrowing@missoulanews.com.

With all the advances in green energy technology, it is easier than ever to start converting your home into a green energy home. A green energy home utilizes renewable resources to provide electricity, hot water, heat and peace of mind.

There are several ways to implement your green energy home plan. The first is solar energy. In a green energy home you can install solar hot water panels which heat and store water for use and you can install solar panels, which use photovoltaic cells to convert sunlight into electricity. These systems can be pricing if purchasing them and having them installed by a professional, but there are many great resources available to build your own solar panels and solar hot water systems that can reduce the cost greatly.

If you are just building your home, a great way to make it a green energy home is to implement passive solar design during construction. This means taking advantage of south facing sides of the house for heating and cooling. By installing lots of highly efficient windows and heat retaining bricks and stone on your south facing areas, you are taking advantage of passive solar techniques to develop your green energy home.

Another addition to the green energy home would be a windmill. Windmills are used to generate electricity from the renewable resource wind. Windmills can be installed on rooftops or in yards and offer pollution free electric. Windmills can be purchased from retailers or there are a wide variety of affordable kits available for the motivated do-it-yourselfers to handle the implementation of their own green energy home plans.

If you have a stream on your property, you may also add to the efficiency of your green energy home with hydroelectric power. This is also a great pollution free option that is easy to maintain and works as long as there is water available.

The ultimate green energy home would combine all of these resources. By using wind, water and solar to generate electricity you are looking not only at huge savings and possible profits from your electricity usage, but you would truly be green as each of these options contributes little to global warming. To further combine passive solar design and solar hot water systems, you are reducing your energy needs exponentially and truly living the dream of going green.

A green energy home doesn’t require more maintenance than traditional homes. Solar technologies require little to no maintenance and wind and water turbines require only regular oiling for peak performance. There is no better time to create your green energy home and start living your dreams in green.

It is important for your rabbit pets to have a balanced diet. Similar to creature and other animals, a balanced diet will ensure that they get the required nutrients for a vigorous and long life. What constitutes right food depends on their age. For example, when they are just a baby, they need milk, as they grow elder, they would entail more pellets then hay and vegetables. Senior rabbits may require superior consumption of pellets.

If you have a bunch of baby bunnies, you may want to supply them with formulated milk besides their mother’s feeding. Suitable rabbit milked replacer includes kitten milk replacer. These can be easily bought from your vet’s company or from a resident pet pile. You can also buy them online.

When feeding baby bunnies, use a feeding pump instead of a feeding container. Their doorway was too small and they can easily choke themselves. They will not drink much from you and over time, you will be able to adjust to the right portion.

When the rabbits began to lead experiencing on unbroken food, you can provide them with pellets and alfalfa hay. As they grow older, regularly lever to timothy and grass hay. Hay is the most important food in a rabbit’s diet as they are high in fibre. It also contains cellulose that helps the rabbit to valley out ingested fur during their uniform and many grooming sessions.

Consider introducing vegetables into their diet regularly when they are between 6 months and 12 months old. Any new food or vegetables should be introduced one at a time. This is to allow you immediately to obstruct feeding it if your rabbits expand discomfort or abdomen upsets with the food. By the time they are 1 year old, their diet should consist chiefly of vegetables, hay and small portion of pellets.

Pet rabbit had sugary tooth and loves delicacy. You can supply them with light fruit on daily heart. The portion should be partial to one or two tablespoons each day. Treats that can be bought from pet save is unnecessary and they are high in carbohydrate and baby satisfy. However, you can still provide them with these types of handle as a reward during teaching sessions.

For older rabbits, the portion of pellets may be amplified to help them continue their authority. If you problem for their wellness and wellbeing, you should try to get more information and be well educated on what forms a balanced and nutritious diet for your pet rabbits.

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There is a new fantastic and exciting world opening before us at submit, and this is the world of pet gadgets. I find it fairly surprising that this has full so long to happen – people finish a lot of money on their pets and would be keen pay dearly for the hottest toys or gadgets that beget pleasure to their pets. Sure, pets ardor the minimal clothes in life – dogs get excited at the situate of an austere tennis globe. Nevertheless, there is an entire stretch of other more exciting goods out there waiting to be discovered. And this world isn’t just focussed on the pets themselves – there are also many yield focussed on owners that make owning a pet much easier and resolve many of the troubles that pet owners meet on a daily core. Unless you know where to look I think you would be astounded at just what is unfilled out there.

Recently I stumbled across some incredible crop for cats. For example I came across an incredible product that teaches cats how to use a person toilet. It’s a tremendous apparatus and truly seems to work basing on videos and articles that I have seen on the net. It’s a very fluent mixture to the smelly litter tray riddle that nothing of us ever thought would go away. I’ve also seen some fantastic electronic toys that will passion cats natural, bird DVDs which cats actually enjoy watching and water fountains to keep your pet’s water unmarked.

For dogs there is an even broader array of gadgets out there including life jackets, dog car seat harnesses, dog IQ tests, UV filtering sunglasses, no spill water cutlery for journey and even a dog treadmill for when you’re not in the mood for walking him.

Some amazing harvest even survived for some of the smallest animals such as hamster potties, rabbit leashes and bird diapers.

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When the time has come for you to decide what your type of pet should be, a cat, a dog, a rabbit, a ferret, maybe you would like a reptile or a bird. Always do the research on the ones you are most interested in and make sure you can provide all the care that they will need. How will they live, in a cage or have run of the house and out doors.

How much food will they eat and how much will it cost. The vet bills can be very high and all pets get sick, flea control for outdoor pets, toys for them to play with, crates or beds for them to sleep in. Will you need a litter box? How much will it cost you? Most pets need to be groomed often, bathed, brushed, and do you have the time it takes to care for them and spend with them?

Find a veterinarian that will be yours and call them to get some facts about your choice of pet that you are considering adopting and then you will be able to make a wise choice that will be happy and healthy for both of you. If you choose to adopt a dog or cat please call around to the animal shelters in your area to see if they have what you are looking for.

If they don’t have what you are looking for they may be getting one soon. After you have adopted your new pet, it is a good idea to take your new pet to your vet to be sure that it’s healthy and has been spayed or neutered. If the vet determines that it’s not. Than you need to get it spayed or neutered as soon as possible

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Rabbits, domestic or birth, are not intended to become pets for humans. After running in the animal humanity sector for some days, I came across many suitcases of rabbits living in appalling conditions and important a miserable life. The devotions is that many people do see rabbits as a relaxed selection when it comes to choose a pet. They consider that departure the rabbit in a confined cosmos for most of the day then usage them occasionally is all you must. This could not be promote from the truth.

Rabbits like to lair, it is what they are planned to do. They also do not like to be fondled or selected up and they choose, by propose, to organize at night. The horrendous life the rabbit leads while caught in a tiny coop where it can neither rove nor hole is unimaginable. Then to be faced with the prodding and petting from a creature just makes it poorer. They are intelligent animals that like to socialise and rove and dig. They are not intended to be with humans.

Bearing in demur that we have just looked at the so called “domestic” rabbit. The brutish rabbit is even more away from making a good pet. The shock to the system that any rowdy animal receives when handled by human is enough to murder them. I have seen it occur. Many a time a well meaning family have taken home a “stray” childish violent rabbit therefore removing it from its natural home and, more importantly, away from its mother. Arriving at the site I have then come face to face with a shaking, cowering little animal absolutely terrified and more regularly than not, powerless to be returned to the lunatic. So many time have I heard “I think it is cold. That is why it is shaking.” No it shakes because of worry. Removing from its home environment these animals will regularly die rapidly or if returned to the riotous not make it very far.

The diet that is usually given to rabbits is unsuitable as well. This off the ledge rabbit “food” can often manage to painful dental troubles later. Wild rabbits eat prairie with other stuff, not muesli or muesli. They also undergo from fly wallop when kept in unsuitable conditions. This is where the animal is eaten perky by flesh drinking maggots. I have witnessed fly effect on many occasions and it is horrendous.

A rabbit could last for ten days and over its existence it can loss the “holder” £3000 or more. After witnessing the distress that these animals go through during their custody I would never mention any rabbit as a pet, natural or, otherwise. They are intelligent societal and dynamic animals and the way they are treated is a shame. Often I was called to a”domestic” rabbit that had been abandoned by its owners. After being left in the violent it would be sick and weak, often very lanky and forever very puzzled and frightened. The wild rabbit is of course also susceptible to myxomatosis, a horrendous disease introduced in Australia to limit the rabbit population and then brought to France illegally from where it division through out Europe. Tumours, or myxoma, develop around the leader and genitals of the animal while the animal also starts to endure from conjunctivitis important to blindness. It then becomes very weak and fragile and will often suffer from lung evils. It is an agonising and gradual demise and it is amazing how many people do not look at vaccination for this disease.

Wild rabbits are intended for the wild. They are designed to travel and play and socialise. They are not designed to be enslaved and left to rot psychologically as well as physically. They do not like to be lifted or handled and the bulldoze the people exert to keep their “pet” still can principal to inside injuries.

Please think about all this the next you hope to keep a rabbit and think whether you would like to be confined in a box barely better than manually and left for hours on your own. Or would you quite run in open fields, party, eat what type intended you to eat and have all the countryside at your disposal? I think I know what I would choose.

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